Asteroid Finder Chart

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Generate interactive asteroid finder charts

Create finder charts for a specified asteroid and/or show asteroids in a field of view. Asteroid positions are supplied from the Lowell Observatory AstEph and SkyBoT. The sky map viewer is Aladin Lite, an embeddable tool provided by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg. The viewer uses publically available Hierarchical Progressive Surveys via an aggregated list

Plot an asteroid track against the sky.

Asteroid

UTC Date | Set To Current UTC

Observatory

Instrument FOV (arcmin)

Number of Future Steps

Step Time Spacing

Perform a SkyBot cone search for asteroids

UTC Date | Set To Current UTC

Observatory

RA (H:M:S)

Dec. (D:M:S)

FOV (arcmin) - 5 degree max

Please note that features are still in beta development.

astorb.dat and astorb.dat.gz have permanently moved to https://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.dat and https://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.dat.gz, respectively. FTP access is no longer supported.